The FBI says that 24,037 missing women are on it's active list....

[rasputin1952]

I was reading about the Grant Story from MI, where they captured the husband, found a dismembered torso
in the garage...the usual heinous crime, and a previous story about the subject had this:



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Tens of thousands of missing persons

The FBI's National Crime Information Center, a database reported by local and state law enforcement officials, had 24,037 missing women on its active list as of Jan. 1. Including girls, the list grows to 58,776, though an FBI spokesman said the numbers might be slightly lower because some solved cases haven't been cleared.

Matthew Felling, media director for The Center for Media and Public Affairs, a Washington-based nonprofit research and educational group, said he has done extensive research on missing white women and the Grant case "has filled out the checklist for media frenzy."

Felling said the skin-color distinction is important. For instance, the world learned everything there was to know about Laci Peterson, while few have heard of Evelyn Hernandez, a Salvadoran immigrant whose disappearance and death had many similarities to Peterson's case.
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Then there is this from the FBI NCIC:

NCIC Missing Person and Unidentified Person Statistics for 2005

Pursuant to Public Law 101-647, 104 Statute 4967, Crime Control Act of 1990 Requirements







NCIC MISSING PERSON FILE



The National Crime Information Center’s (NCIC’s) Missing Person File was implemented in 1975. Records in the Missing Person File are retained indefinitely, until the individual is located or the record is canceled by the entering agency. The Missing Person File contains records for missing who:

- have a proven physical or mental disability (Disability – EMD),

- are missing under circumstances indicating that they may be in physical danger (Endangered – EME),

- are missing after a catastrophe (Catastrophe Victim – EMV),

- are missing under circumstances indicating their disappearance may not have been voluntary (Involuntary – EMI),

- are under the age of 21 and do not meet the above criteria (Juvenile – EMJ), or

- are 21 and older and do not meet any of the above criteria but for whom there is a reasonable concern for their safety (Other – EMO).



As of December 31, 2005, there were 109,531 active missing person records in NCIC. Juveniles under the age of 18 account for 58,081 (53.03 %) of the records and 11,868 (10.84 %) were for juveniles between the ages of 18 and 20. *



During 2005, 834,536 missing person records were entered into NCIC, an increase of 0.51 % from the 830,325 entered in 2004. Missing Person records cleared or canceled during the same period totaled 844,838. Reasons for these removals include: a law enforcement agency located the subject, the individual returned home, or the record had to be removed by the entering agency due to a determination that the record is invalid.





*This fulfills requirements as set forth in Public Law 101-647, 104 statute 4967, Crime Control Act of 1990 stating the Attorney General is to publish a statistical summary of reports of missing children. This act was modified

April 7, 2003, by "Suzanne's Law" changing the definition of a missing person to be under 21 years of age.




http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/missingpersons.htm

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These are real people, some might have just dropped out of society, died naturally or some other situation explains a situation that might be innocent. But for God's sake these #'s are staggering...